Susanne was invited to speak at a conference at Utrecht University (13-14 February 2025) on ‘Conflict, War and Peace’, as part of a panel on rethinking structural violence. The panel focussed specifically on the role of violence as a structural cause of famine and starvation. Susanne contributed with information from the Sudan research, including a short presentation on the nature of the current war, as an extension of earlier violence. She also discussed how the destruction or collapse of state institutions severely limited previous forms of aid, new forms of diaspora aid, and how digitalisation involved new actors in aid’s manipulation and new benefits of famine.